PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sparknotes, Tyrant, Timocracy
29 Nov 2017
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But to those who thus wish good we ascribe only goodwill. To be friends, then, the must be mutually recognized as bearing goodwill and wishing well to each other for one of the aforesaid reasons. Friendship consists of a mutual feeling of goodwill between two people. When there is too great a gap between people, friendship is impossible, and often two friends will grow apart if one becomes far more virtuous than the other. The true mark of friendship, though, is that it consists more of loving than of being loved. Friendships e(cid:374)dure (cid:449)he(cid:374) ea(cid:272)h frie(cid:374)d lo(cid:448)es the other a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to the other"s (cid:373)erit. Since justice, friendship, and community are closely related, it is far worse to abuse a close friend or family member than it is to abuse a stranger. There are three kinds of political constitution: monarchy, aristocracy, and timocracy.
